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A freelance foreign correspondent, magazine writer and lecturer, Doug Hendrie has spent six years exploring novel subcultures and unusual trends. He's reported on everything from Australian sex surrogates to Kenya’s internet startups to the raskol gangs, mobile phone culture and elections in Papua New Guinea. He was the principal researcher for Jacqueline Kent's biography of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines in Australia, the US and the UK. ...more

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	AmalgaNations 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New nonfiction

Here are two features I’ve been plugging away at for a while.

The joke that bombed

I met the now-notorious Jalals about a month before their arrest for their public shooting prank that turned out to be mocked-up. Savvy creators willing to mix truth and fiction to get big, fast.

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You’ve most likely seen one of the Jalals’ viral videos on your Facebook news feed. Grainy shots of night-time su Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 10, 2016 20:59 • Tags: journalism, nonfiction

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“the Marmots of Impure Thinking were being banished by the Bicycle Wheel of Truth”
― Tom Doig, Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure

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